Nadia Santiago
Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.
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Sam Levinson Put His Foreshadowing For Rue’s Death Inside Euphoria S3E6. Here’s the Receipt.
In Episode 6 of Euphoria Season 3, Rue Bennett walks into a church, reads the Ten Commandments, and takes a call from her mother. She tells Leslie she just wants to be forgiven.
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Rue Proposed Marriage To Jules In This Week’s Euphoria Episode. Jules Slapped Her. It Was Their Opposite Defense Mechanisms Clashing.
Euphoria’s main timeline takes place in 2026, 5 years after the show’s original high-school cast graduated. The major characters are in their early 20s. The relationships from high school are mostly still in some version of motion.
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Sam Levinson Wrote Two Different Women Using The Same Psychological Defense In This Week’s Euphoria. There’s 50 Years Of Research On It.
Rue Bennett spent half of last Sunday’s Euphoria in Jules’ apartment proposing marriage and kids. Faye spent the other half doing cocaine while her boyfriend tried to get her pregnant. Both women are in immediate, life-threatening danger.
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Sam Levinson Didn’t Invent The Con Alamo’s Mother Runs In This Week’s Euphoria. The FBI Has A Name For It. Americans Kost $929 Million To It Last Year.
Euphoria’s main timeline takes place in Los Angeles in 2026, 5 years after the show’s original high-school cast graduated. Half of last Sunday’s episode left that timeline entirely and went back to the 1970s.
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Tatum O’Neal Won An Oscar At 10 Years Old For Playing The Same Scene Sam Levinson Wrote For Alamo’s Flashback In This Week’s Euphoria
Peter Bogdanovich directed Paper Moon in 1973. The con man at its center is Ryan O’Neal. The 9-year-old playing his daughter is his actual daughter, Tatum. Tatum won Best Supporting Actress at the 1974 ceremony for the role.
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ChatGPT Told a Grieving Doctor She Could Digitally Resurrect Her Brother, but the Conversation Ended in a Psychosis Diagnosis
Her first prompt got a refusal. By the end of the conversation, ChatGPT was telling her she could build a digital version of her brother that would talk to her in a “real-feeling” way.
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Sharon Stone had to become the best quick draw in America to make “The Quick and the Dead” because there were no women to double her.
“I had to become the best quick draw, and because there were no more female quick draws in America when we made the movie, I couldn’t have a stunt double.” Sharon Stone was 36, fresh off Basic Instinct, and using…
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Chelsea and Kwame from Love Is Blind Season 4 shut down divorce rumors on April 29. On May 15 they confirmed them.
Chelsea Griffin and Kwame Appiah met in the pods on Love Is Blind Season 4, filmed in Seattle in early 2022 and aired on Netflix in April 2023.
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Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of weaving, in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. At home, she and Tom Holland crochet together.
Athena invented weaving. She taught it to mortal women. The loom is her symbol across every surviving Greek source, sitting alongside the spear and the owl as the three things that define her.
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Drake’s “Make Them Cry” just broke hip-hop’s all-time Spotify single-day record. Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” had it.
Two years ago Kendrick Lamar released “Not Like Us,” the Drake diss track, and most of the culture decided the rap battle was over.
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Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” was the hardest movie he’s ever done. “By far. Not even close.”
Matt Damon has been doing physically punishing shoots for 30 years. The Bourne movies. “Ford v Ferrari.” “The Last Duel.” “The Martian,” where he played a man stranded alone on another planet.
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Martin Short, on losing his wife Nancy and daughter Katherine: “I don’t see any difference between mental illness as a disease and cancer as a disease.”
Content warning: this article discusses suicide. Martin Short spoke publicly this week, for the first time, about the death of his eldest daughter Katherine.
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A Widower Spent $500,000 Proving He Was Right to Keep His Daughter Away From Her Grandparents. The Judge Agreed.
Sherry Naso was 37 when she died of a brain tumor in April 2024. Her parents, both doctors, had spent months telling her the returning symptoms were Prozac withdrawal and that she should wait it out.
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Colleen Hoover Readers Have Been Arguing About Verity’s Ending Since 2018. The Author Already Took A Side.
Verity’s plot hinges on two documents the character wrote: a manuscript that paints her as a monster, and a letter claiming the manuscript was fiction. Hoover has named her side: “I’m team manuscript.” The letter was her cover.
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The Real Meaning of Cassie’s Cleopatra Monologue in Euphoria Season 3 Episode 5
Cassie Howard walked into a soap opera audition in Season 3 Episode 5, recited her measurements for the camera, blew a kiss, and then opened Act 5 Scene 2 of Antony and Cleopatra.
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Two Names, Three Signatures: The Euphoria Season 3 Legal Theory About Cassie Howard Everyone Is Talking About
Three contracts. Three signatures. Two different last names. In Season 3, Episode 5, Cassie signs Maddy’s management contract as Cassie Jacobs. She signs Brandon Fontaine’s party agreement as Cassie Howard. She signs the L.A.
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Poker and Polo: The Euphoria Season 3 Theory That Proves Rue Survives
In Episode 4, Rue is in the most dangerous position she’s been in all season. The DEA flipped her to get to Laurie, but Paladin’s death destroyed her relationship with Alamo.
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Sam Levinson Used Jules To Air Grievances About His Own War With Critics and Censors. The Episode Is Airing While the FCC Does the Same Thing to Trans Content in Real Life.
Sam Levinson has spent 3 seasons being told he goes too far. Season 1: the nudity, the drug use, the sexual content involving minors. Season 2: the same conversations, louder. Critics called it exploitation. They called it gratuitous.